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A Layered Approach to Fraud Detection and Prevention

Increasing investigator efficiency using network analytics

About this paper

Financial transactions viewed in isolation could appear normal – but might they look quite different if you could correlate those transactions across channels, products and related entities? This paper summarizes a presentation at the 2012 Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Annual Conference in Orlando, FL, where Dan Barta and David Stewart of SAS called for a more holistic approach to fraud detection than the silo systems in use today -- a layered approach with controls at multiple levels across the organization, with network analysis to reveal links among entities and uncover fraudulent behavior that would otherwise go undetected.

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SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 80,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.